How did the growth of trade take place in the sixteenth century?
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The sixteenth century was on the whole a time of economic expansion for Europe .the depressed conditions that had prevailed from the middle of the fourteenth century were giving way and the growth before 1350 was being resumed. one sign of this expansion,as well as a cause of it,was a growth in population
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The sixteenth century saw not only the rise of new economic powers but also the decline of old ones. In addition to the gradually decreasing importance of the Italian city-states, the period also witnessed a falloff in the power and position of the Hanseatic League, or Hansa towns. This was an organization of cities in northern Europe, formed for the purpose of carrying on trade; it had been one of the great powers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It secured special trading privileges with numerous countries, fought wars to maintain its privileges, and had settlements of merchants from London to Novgorod. The chief city of the league was Lübeck, but many other great cities belonged to it. It could flourish only in a period when central governments in some areas were weak enough to permit the existence of virtually self-governing city-states. With the rise and consolidation of the nations of Europe, its decline was inevitable. By the sixteenth century its greatest days were over, though many causes contributed to its decline and the decline did not come suddenly. Something of the atmosphere of the Hanseatic towns as it came down to our own century is preserved for us in the writings of a descendant of the prosperous merchant class of a Hanseatic city, Thomas Mann.
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